Nas Barbers Point

Famous quotes containing the words nas, barbers and/or point:

    “A clerk ther was of Oxenford also
    That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.
    As leene was his hors as is a rake,
    And he nas nat right fat, I undertake,
    But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “You know how Utamaro’s beauties sought
    The end of love in their all-speaking braids.
    Alas! Have all the barbers lived in vain
    That not one curl in nature has survived?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to “the serious.” One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)